A man used a broom handle to poke a relay to make the machine run, killing 7 people and injuring 3 people in Yen Bai.

The Yen Bai Provincial Police Department has just had initial investigation information about an industrial accident that killed 7 workers at Yen Bai Cement and Mineral Joint Stock Company.

Accordingly, around 12:00 a.m. on April 22, after lunch break, Mr. Le Manh C (born 1979, residing in Yen Binh district), the production shift leader of the finished product workshop, along with Mr. Nong Van T (born 1995) and Mr. The other 8 people are all workers at Yen Bai Cement Factory, transporting materials inside cement mill No. 3 (ball mill) to repair and replace lining plates.

At this time, Mr. C did not cut off the power according to the repair process.

At 12:49 on the same day, Ms. Nguyen Thi Tinh (born 1984, residing in Yen Binh district), a central control room employee, observed through the camera screen and discovered Mr. T and a number of people sitting on crusher No. 3, You should know that these workers are repairing the crusher.

Next, Ms. Tinh saw on the computer screen that there was still power to crusher No. 3, so she called Mr. T to inform him that the machine still had power and asked to turn off the power.

A while later, seeing that crusher No. 3 still had power, Ms. Tinh contacted Mr.

At about 1:00 p.m. on the same day, Mr. C called Mr. Vu Xuan Toan (born 1979, residing in Yen Binh district), the head of the factory production shift, asking Mr. Toan to ask the person on duty in the Hot Wind room, 6KV Power Distribution Station. to cut off the power source of crusher No. 3.

Mr. Toan then reported via walkie-talkie to Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan (born 1982, residing in Yen Binh district), a worker on duty in the Hot Wind room. Then Mr. Tuan went to the electric cutter of crusher No. 3, used the crank to pull the cutter out, but could not pull it.

Afterwards, Mr. Tuan called Mr. Toan over the radio to say it was stuck and could not be pulled and told Mr. Toan to go find an electrician to fix it.

At this time, Tran Manh Hung (born 1980, residing in Yen Bai city), a material weighing employee working there, also heard it, immediately went to the crusher, saw Mr. Toan riding a motorbike into the room. The wind was hot, so Hung follow.

Mr. Toan went to the front of the cutter of crusher No. 3 and used the crank to pull the cutter but could not. Mr. Toan disconnected the Aptomat from the control center and went to find an electrician.

At this time, only Hung and Mr. Tuan remained. Hung used the crank to pull the cutter but failed, so he took a piece of broom handle about 80cm long that was available there and poked it into the electrical relay on the cutter, starting crusher number 3. , resulting in mill No. 3 rotating.

At this time, Mr. Tuan heard the sound of the relay closing, and at the same time heard someone say over the radio to cut off the power to crusher number 3, so Mr. Tuan used the broom handle that Hung had just held to close the relay to turn off the power to crusher number 3.

As a result, 7 people inside the crusher died, 3 people sitting on the crusher were thrown to the ground and injured, and were taken to the emergency room and treated at Yen Bai Provincial General Hospital.

On April 23, Yen Bai Provincial Police decided to prosecute a criminal case of violating labor safety regulations at Yen Bai Cement Factory under Yen Bai Cement and Mineral Joint Stock Company, issued decided to prosecute the defendant and ordered the defendant to be temporarily detained for Tran Manh Hung.

The Police Investigation Agency of Yen Bai Provincial Police is continuing to investigate and clarify the case to handle it according to regulations.

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